Bathing suit



March 28' .1933. A. FERRARI ET AL BATHING SUIT 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed May 25 930 .1 w n m Maw. m A A5 Malt}! 1933- A. FERRARI ET AL 13902,843

BATHING SUIT Filed May 25, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 wad-M THE/R ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 28, 1933 1 UNI ED STATES ALBERT or mmxnr. 11111., am) smm w. mavens, or

. rnmwsrnvam PATENT OFFICE PHILADELPHIA,

name surn Application filed Kay 26,

This invention relates to bathing suits and has for an object to provide a suit ofthe character with im roved means embod ing a flap at the posterior with closure there ore. 5

, sanitary purposes and access can only be had by dropping the entire suit. Unsuccessful experiments havebeen made with posterior openings and flaps, but such flaps have been secured by buttons or other similar fastenings. These buttons often come off and even when in place, are not capable of producing a fastening of sufliciently intimate holding ability not to expose the person of the wearer through the gaps between the buttons and along the sides of the legs.

7 It is an object of the present invention to provide such a garment with a posteriorfiap, which can be quickly and readil'yQmanipulated even when the garmentzis w'et and which will hold the edges'ofr the flap and garment in such intimate closed relation as 1:6 prevent exposure through anypart of the A further object of the invention is to provide a bathing suit having a slit formed upon the sides of one leg portion and entirely across the back, at or adjacent to the waist line and down the opposite leg, with means for intimately closing the slit throughout its entire lineal extent.

A further object of the invention is to provide in a bathing suit a garment comprising a body garment and a nether garment, the latter being provided with an under part having a slit extending upwardly along one leg, across the back and down-the opposite leg, with improved means for closmg the slit and an outer part in the form of a skirt entirely covering the slitted part.

According to the present invention, the bathing suit comprises a nether garment, ap-

proximately parallel slits formed upon the opposite sides of the garment extending upwardly to and across, at or adJacent to the waist line, such 'slits merging into a single slit forming a posterior flap. a

This inventionis directed to other objects and possesses other features of novelty and At the present time, bathing suits in use are provided with no posterior opening-for 1930. Serial m5. 455,824,

foregoing, will be hereinafter more fully siet.forth;

A In the drawings:'

Figure 1 is a view of a figure showing one side of a bathing arment, a part being broken away and ex 'biting the position of the slit along the side of the leg,

Figure 2 is a posterior view of a fra ent of the bathing suit with the slitted part disconnected and the flap depending,

Figure 3 is a posterior view of the arment with the flap secured in position, an

a Figure 4 is an enlarged detail view of the flap fastening means. The improved suit, which forms the sub- Ject matter of this application, will preferably comprise/a body arment 10 and a nether garment 11. Exterlorly of this part 11, a skirt art 12 may be employed, but such skirtpart orms no part of t e present invention. The nether garment is provided with a slit 13 which extends entirely across the back of the garment at or adjacent to the waist line, and is curved at 14 to extenddownwardly along the le s to an indeterminate position. ThlS slit 13' orms a flap 15 which at Figure 2 is shown dependent an at Figure 3 is shown in closed position. The slit forming the flap is closed by the use of a slide closure 16, sometimes commercially lmown as Tal- -advantage, some of which, together with the I on type of closure or zipper t eof cloedges of two relatively non-stretchable strips of fabric. The fabric strips here represented by the strip 16, are secured res ctively a ong the cut edges above noted, andfiirevent distortion of the elastic knitted fabric from which bathi suits are almost universally constructed.

drawings that the portion of the faste organization which extends across the bac lies normal to the back and that the portions t will be apparent from the which extend downwardly along the remote sides of'the legs lie normal to said remote sides which necessita a spiraling intermediate said portions, specifically at the curves 14:, as will be more clearly seen at Figure 3.

The closure 16 is opened and closed -manually by a runner 17. When the runner is at the extreme end 18, the garment is entirely 5 closed as shown at Fi ure 3, but when at the extreme end 19, the ap is disconnected as shown at Figure 3 and falls by gravity.

As will be seen from the drawings, but more specially from Figs. 1 and 3, the slide closure extends along and is normal to the remote sides of the legs and extends across and is normal to the back at substantially the waist line. This necessitates a curving and spiraling of the slide fastener strip.

Of course, the bathin suit herein illustrated, may be modifie in various ways without departing from the invention herein set forth and hereinafter claimed.

The invention is hereby claimed as follows 1. A bathing suit comprising a nether garment having a slit formed entirely across the back and curved to continue downwardly.

' along the remote sides of the legs forming a flap having rounded. corners, strips of rela tively non-stretchable material reinforcing the ed es of the slit, and a sliding closure intimate y connecting the margins of the flapand garment throughout the entire extent of so the slit.

2. A bathing suit comprising a nether garment having a slit extending entirely across the back adjacent to the waist line and downwardly and anteriorly curved along the remote sides of the legs, and interlockin hooks carried by the margins of the slit, sai hooks being normal to the posterior of the garment and both curving and spiraling to normal along the said remote sides of the legs.

40 In testimony whereof we havesigned our names to this specification.

ALBERT FERRARI. SIDNEY W. DEVERS. 

